The Carolina Wrkn {riiri/othorux lui/ouicianus) breeding in 

 New York. — Througli the kindness of Mr. D. H. Kellogg. I am enabled 

 to record for the first time the breeding of Thnjolhorm ludovicianus in 

 New York State, who, on the evening of May 2 last, showed me the 

 nest of the species at his residence at Spuyten-Duyvil. Tlie nest was 

 built on a shelf in the closed room of an out-house, which was entered by 

 the bird through a latticed window. Desiring to establish its identity beyond 

 question, several attempts were made to capture the parent upon her nest, 

 but unsuccessfully, until the sixth or seventh trial, she having persistently 

 returned immediately after our departure on every unsuccessful attempt. 

 The nest, containing five eggs, was merely a miscellaneous aggregation of 

 rubbish, extending for fully sixteen inches along a small shelf already 

 occupied by several articles, now partially imbedded in the materials of its 

 structure. The whole was overhung by a mass of dried bean-vines pendent 

 from the wall above, which partially concealed the mossy fringed side- 

 entrance to the feather-lined cavity within. The eggs were five in num- 

 ber, and on the point of hatching. 



Mr. Robert Lawrence has informed me of the interesting fact of this 

 species having bred about the same early date at Flushing, L I. [see below]. 

 So far as I am aware, this is the first record of its breeding on Long 

 Island, though I learn from Mr. Akhurst of Brooklyn, that in 1843 a pair 

 reared a brood of five young at Valley Grove. At Riverdale, the present 

 season, I observed this species in full song on April 20 and May 6 ; and 

 Mr. Kellogg informs me that the male bird of the breeding pair remained 

 about his place in full song for at least two days after its nest had been 

 taken. — EaOENE P. Bicknell, Riverdale, New York Ciii/. 



muU.N,0.0. 4, July. 1879. p. /^J'-z^V. 



Bird Notea from Longr Island, N. Y. 

 "William Datcher. 



25. Thyothorus ludovicianus. Carolina Wren.— Since my previous 

 recordf another specimen has been brought to my notice hy one of my 

 correspondents, Mr. Henry Hicks, of Westbury Station, Qiieens Co., who 

 now has it in his collection. He .<:ecured it the latter part of March, i8S6. 

 It was first seen March 22, about an open hovel, and remained about the 

 place until the 25th, when it was shot. Auk. V, April. 1888. p.l88 



The Carolina -Wreni^f-y^Lt-i^s ^^ovicianiis) at 9nwood-on-Hudson, 

 New York City. —Visiting my suiumer home at Inwood-on-Hudson, 

 March 28, 1896, I heard a loud and beautiful song coming from the top 

 of a dead elm tree. The bird sang almost continually until my efforts to 

 get a good view of him frightened him away. After sitting fifteen min- 

 utes on a rock near where the bird had appeared to alight, and waiting for 

 the song, he broke out again, and I discovered him perching on a low 

 tree not twenty-five feet distant. 



It was a new species to me, but it seemed to me it must be the Carolina 

 Wren, and on studying up the bird carefully, in all my books at home, 

 I felt quite sure the identification was correct. I heard him again on April 

 I 'and 22. May 14 we went to Inwood for the summer, but only heard the 

 Wren sing four times, until May 22. Then I had a fine view of one near 

 some dilapidated buildings around an unoccupied house. Four days later 

 loud and continued singing attracted me to a heap of dry brush near 

 these buildings, and there I found the parents and five little Carolina 

 Wrens. The young were able to fly nicely, and they gave a tnusical call, 

 much like that of the old birds, and scolded beautifully. 



After that, they were seen frequently, and I heard the beautiful song at 

 all hours of the day, up to Nov. 12, when we luoved to town. Going to 

 Inwood on Jan. 18, 1897, I heard the full song again, so it would appear 

 that they wintered there. 



The old birds were quite tame, lighting and singing in shrubbery 

 close to the house, and twice one was seen on the piazza, examining 

 plants in pots, and even drinking from the saucer of a flower-pot. — F. 

 H. FooTE, Ne%v Tork City. 



